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Credit: QUB A new technology — 'dialysis for the lungs' — which could save thousands of lives in Intensive Care Units is being taken forward...

IMAGE: This is a picture of the STI risk quiz. Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Researchers at Johns Hopkins say an online "pop quiz" they developed...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 6, 2017) – Scientists have shown that a medicine prescribed for severe pain can help...

Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute have used human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) to identify a characteristic of abnormal brain development in...

Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H. – Scientists from the University of New Hampshire have unlocked a major genetic mystery of one of the ancestors of cultivated...

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have found that a specific detoxification compound, glutathione, helps resist...

The ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine announced that it has received a $165,000 commitment from Pfizer to provide funding for education and training...

Credit: Nova Southeastern University FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. – Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), sometimes referred to as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a mysterious, debilitating and misunderstoo..

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio, University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) Every day tens of thousands of Canadians unwillingly find themselves becoming shadows of their former selves. They...

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta The quest to understand a prolonged infection in an infant being treated for leukemia has led...

People who have reduced enzyme activity to breakdown active aldehyde, i.e., those who become easily inebriated, are more likely to develop fatty liver disease even...

How does memory occur? And what about movement, or thinking? One key element to understand all these brain functions are the synapses. A synapse is...

While Climate change steadily takes its toll, promising to raise temperatures around the world by at least 1.5 °C within the next 100 years, organisms...

A new Government-backed code which could slash UK carbon dioxide emissions by 220 million tonnes and protect rare wildlife by restoring moors, bogs and mires...

Credit: © C. Hobbs/VIMS. If you've visited North Carolina's Outer Banks or other barrier islands, you've likely experienced their split personalities–places where high waves can...